Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales" is a collection of 50 Neapolitan fairy tales, presented within a frame story. It is recognized as the first collection of literary fairy tales in Europe, predating those of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.
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- Charles Perrault — Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Mother Goose Tales) (1697)
- Madame d'Aulnoy — Contes des Fées (1697–1698)
- Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm — Children's and Household Tales (1812)
- Hans Christian Andersen — Fairy Tales Told for Children (1835)
- Hans Christian Andersen — New Fairy Tales (1844)
- Hans Christian Andersen — Stories (1852)
- Joseph Jacobs — English Fairy Tales (1890)
- Joseph Jacobs — More English Fairy Tales (1894)
- Joseph Jacobs — Celtic Fairy Tales (1892)
- Joseph Jacobs — More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895)
- Thomas Crofton Croker — Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825)
- Lady Wilde — Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland (1887)
- Jeremiah Curtin — Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland (1890)
- W. B. Yeats — Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888)
- Andrew Lang — The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
- Andrew Lang — The Red Fairy Book (1890)
- Andrew Lang — The Green Fairy Book (1892)
- Andrew Lang — The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
- Andrew Lang — The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
- Andrew Lang — The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
- Andrew Lang — The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
- Andrew Lang — The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
- Andrew Lang — The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- Andrew Lang — The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
- Andrew Lang — The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
- Andrew Lang — The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen & Jørgen Moe — Norwegian Folk Tales (Norske Folkeeventyr) (1841–1844)
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen — Round the Yule Log (1881)
- Alexander Afanasyev — Russian Fairy Tales (1855–1867)
- Alexander Afanasyev — Russian Folk Tales (English edition) (1916)
- Anonymous / Edward Lane — The Thousand and One Nights (1838–1841)
- Anonymous / John Payne — The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–1884)
- Anonymous / Sir Richard Burton — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885–1888)
- Vishnu Sharma — Panchatantra (c. 200 BCE)
- Narayana — Hitopadesha (c. 12th century)
- Anonymous — Jataka Tales (Ancient)
- Yei Theodora Ozaki — Japanese Fairy Tales (1908)
- Grace James — Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (1910)
- Richard Wilhelm — The Chinese Fairy Book (1921)
- Herbert Giles — Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends (1911)
- Wolfram Eberhard — Folktales of China (1937 (English editions later))
- James Scarth Gale — Korean Folk Tales (1913)
- A. K. Gordon — West African Folk Tales (1917)
- R. Sutherland Rattray — Hausa Folk-Lore (1913)
- George Bird Grinnell — Blackfoot Lodge Tales (1892)
- Franz Boas — Tsimshian Mythology and Tales (folktale portions) (1916)